Posted on 07/04/2017 10:14:14 AM PDT by tbw2
Several high quality and cheap PCB antennas demoed for ham radio and survival communications by Survivalcomms
You can click here to go to the video.
This should be good. I love the ham radio threads on FR.
Pinging the list.
Is there a ham radio ping list?
Jamestown1630;TxGrandMom;LurkedLongEnough;StoneWall Brigade;45semi;AlexW;LadyBuck;haywoodwebb;usconservative;bikerman;Blue_Spark;bitterohiogunclinger;Sylvester McMonkey McBean;scripter;Bobalu;buccaneer81;camerakid400;catsandmusic;Cindy;clee1;CodeToad;cva66snipe;Database;Dave in Eugene of all places;dragnet2;DYngbld;Erasmus;firewalk;fremont_steve;Fresh Wind;Grammy;halfright;hambran;HillarysMoralVoid;JackOfVA;JDoutrider;JoeFromSidney;JoJo Gunn;JRandomFreeper;Liberal Bob;miele man;Moose4;mwyounce;mylife;NCjim;nnn0jeh;Not now, Not ever!;padre35;reagan_fanatic;RFEngineer;Right Wing Assault;robomatik;SallysConcerns;SERKIT;sidegunner;soundbits;StegallTx;tenpops;The_Media_never_lie;theBuckwheat;tophat9000;Tuxedo;Varmint Al;vigl;VoiceOfBruck;Wilhelm Tell;Wiseghy;re_nortex;loungitude;ELS;aragorn;backwoods-engineer
Just past the list to your FR homepage for easy ref.
Should work with my cell phone too.
I have all of that laying around the house here and it'll cost me nothing more than about 30 minutes of time.
Bottom line: a little knowledge, some time, and some good old fashioned American ingenuity typically means you can build an antenna for much cheaper than you can buy one and it's going to work almost as good as a commercial product.
That's the beauty of this hobby!
As long as you know how to wire it into your cellphone, sure.
You know, I’ve thought about doing something like that. I was thinking of resonant inductive coupling. But there’s not much to couple to I suppose. Probably just some traces etched onto the circuit board.
Fine, a broadband antenna for a range of line-of-sight frequencies that does include several ham bands, but for which virtually no commercial equipment is avaialble. So this is supposed to help “survival comms” - how, exactly?
hese LPAs could be useful for wi-fi if directionality is desired, but I can come up with 2 dozen more useful ideas for survival communications without even trying, and wouldn’t need a boring half hour video to describe them all.
(totally agree with you—never used a "store bought" antenna.)
Just gimme 1000’ of wire and I can handle the rest...
All wires here.. OCF 6-80 @60’ Downsized from Yagi’s 6-40
Are people stlll interested in radio? I’ve been trying to sell my ICOM Receiver (IC-R71A) on Craigslis. I get zero response.
Wire and trees is all I needs.
I have fond memories of the R-71a and my old Frog 7.
I shook my head and thought to myself "it's guys like that who make the rest of us look like loons for being in this hobby ..."
My only two professionally made base antenna's are my Mosley TA-33 and my Comet GP-9 that sits high, high, high atop the tower and serves as my 2m/440m DMR repeater antenna.
Everything else: homebrew.
Obviously that’s not 440m, it’s 440mhz .... geez...
My team of all new extras made 1490’ Q’s at FD.... Been whipping them into shape since CQ SSB. Got them hooked.... swallowed the hook, line, and sinker, too.
We need newbies BAD... It is up to us to snatch them any way we can....
73
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